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Monday, June 26, 2017

26 June - Blogs I'm Following 1 of 2

*"Revealed: The Exact Date of the Coming Apocalypse"* by Brian Maher "We now have - on some authority, no less - the precise hour of the coming financial collapse. We’ve circled the judgment day on our calendar, in funereal black. We’re hurrying our last will and testament in preparation thereof… arranging our affairs… bending every effort to get right with our almighty maker. When does the terrifying day arrive? Answer anon. But let us first check in on today’s markets, while there’s still time remaining. Stocks don’t seem to realize they go on borrowed time. The Dow was up 15 poi...more »

The Morehouse College Board of Trustees has appointed alumnus Harold Martin Jr. as interim president. Martin takes on the day-to-day leadership of the college following the death of Interim President William J. Taggart earlier this month. “While these circumstances are certainly unprecedented, I am honored to step into the role of Interim President of Morehouse […]

University of North Carolina System President Margaret Spellings tapped Dr. Johnson Akinleye — who had been serving as interim chancellor of N.C. Central University — to lead the public historically Black institution located in Durham, N.C.

Loyal Allen Jr. is on a mission to make Highline College more accessible to residents all across the Northwest coast, even though it’s already considered to be one of the most diverse community colleges in the state of Washington.

*Soldiers Assist* Ukrainian soldiers assigned to the 1st Airmobile Battalion, 79th Air Assault Brigade adjust a mortar’s trajectory during a live-fire exercise at the Yavoriv Combat Training Center at the International Peacekeeping and Security Center, near Yavoriv, Ukraine, June 16, 2017. Yavoriv CTC staff, along with mentors from the Oklahoma Army National Guard's 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, led the training for soldiers from the 1-79th during the battalion's rotation through the Yavoriv CTC. The 45th is deployed to Ukraine as part of the Joint Multinational Training Group-...more »

*Washington Free Beacon*: *Anti-Trump Leak Campaign Damaging U.S. and Allied Operations* *U.S. official: Leaks of classified info by former Obama officials endanger American security operations.* A new wave of leaks targeting the Trump administration has actively endangered ongoing intelligence and military operations being conducted by the United States and its allies, sparking anger and concern inside and outside the White House, according to multiple conversations with senior U.S. officials intimately familiar with the situation. The classified leaks, which are being handed to...more »

Veteran US investigative reporter Seymour Hersh has exposed Khan Sheikhoun chemical attack as totally phoney, a fact known at the time by the entire US defence and national security bureaucracy but ignored by President Trump himself. The post EXPOSED: phoney Khan Sheikhoun chemical attack never happened appeared first on The Duran.

Then national security adviser General Michael Flynn delivers a statement daily briefing at the White House in Washington U.S., February 1, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria *John Solomon and Sara Carter, CRICA*: *Did the FBI retaliate against Michael Flynn by launching Russia probe?* *Secret memos show Trump adviser roiled bureau by intervening in agent’s discrimination case before he was targeted in Russia case.* The FBI launched a criminal probe against former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn two years after the retired Army general roiled the bureau’s leadership by inte...more »

I've posted quite a bit in the past about the various devices TEPCO drops into Fukushima Daiichi unit 1 (e.g., see a clear view of device here and discussion here). The device being used today in Unit 1 is deployed by TEPCO when atmospheric emissions start looking worse, as they have the last few days. You can see the crane dropping the device in unit 1 in this screenshot with the TEPCO time stamp of June 27 13:04: The device is a bit clearer in this cropped and enlarged section from the screenshot above. You can see the steam from the device so perhaps it is injecting water,...more »

George Stephanopoulos had two very different Senate Republican opponents of TrumpCare on his show Sunday, Susan Collins (R-ME), who finds the bill cruel and even draconian, and Rand Paul (R-KY), who doesn’t find it nearly draconian or cruel enough. He started with Rand Paul, pointing out to him that his position is at odds even with Señor Trumpanzee, who said the bill that bears his name should “have more heart.” Paul scoffed and ran off in directions unrelated to the debate outside of the one in his own head. Well, you know, the fundamental flaw of Obamacare was that it added re...more »

North Korean ballistic-missile test launch, image released May 2017. (Photo: KCNA/via Reuters) *Richard Weitz, NRO:* *With North Korea Threatening, the U.S. Advances on Missile Defense* *We need to move faster than existing plans call for. * North Korea’s murder of Otto Warmbier is yet another reminder that the United States needs a new approach to deal with the Pyongyang problem. Unfortunately, sanctions, threats, and diplomacy have failed to steer North Korea away from making America its primary nuclear target. In his testimony to the House Armed Services Committee last week, U...more »

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (5:25 A.M.) – On Monday, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) kicked off a new offensive on the perimeter of the East Ghouta opposition mainland, targeting Islamist insurgents in the large Damascus suburb of Ayn Tarma. Probing rebel-held turf just east of the M5-highway, the SAA’s Republican Guard swept through numerous buildings and reached […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

Israel's bombing of Syrian positions in the Golan Heights is part of a strategy of creating an Al-Qaeda controlled buffer zone as Israel's strategic position deteriorates in light of the pending victory of the Syrian government in the Syrian war. The post The reasons and perils of Israel’s dangerous game in Syria appeared first on The Duran.

Published on Jun 26, 2017 The Russian foreign minister has harshly criticized the US-led coalition in Syria, saying it’s protecting al-Nusra Front terrorists operating in the Arab country. Lavrov said the US appears to have been protecting foreign-backed militants such as Nusra Front from aerial bombardment. During a press conference with his Ethiopian counterpart in […]

Japan on Alert: Residents Told to Seek Shelter or Lie on Ground in Event of North Korea Missile Attack by Danielle Demetriou, 26 June 2017, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ The Japanese government has created a nationwide television broadcast advising civilians on how to protect themselves in the event of a North Korean missile attack. – The new 30-second government announcement […]

Published on Jun 23, 2017 A mysterious, unseen, planetary object with a mass somewhere between that of Mars and Earth may be lurking in the outer reaches of our solar system, according to new research. Scientists at the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (LPL) put forward evidence that this unknown “planetary mass object” […]

The Jews And The Concentration Camps: A Factual Appraisal by The Red Cross. by http://www.ihr.org/ Excerpts from Chapter 9 & 10 of Did 6 Million Really Die? There is one survey of the Jewish question in Europe during World War Two and the conditions of Germany’s concentration camps which is almost unique in its honesty and […]

“Global Order” Is An Euphemism for Washington’s Hegemony by Paul Craig Roberts, http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/ Colonel Andrew Bacevich, a professor at Boston University, served in Vietnam. His son was killed serving in Afghanistan. He comes from a military family. I know him. He is among the best that our country has produced. – As has occurred before, he has […]

Published on Jun 26, 2017 CNN, the self-described “most trusted name in news,” is on the defensive after being forced to retract an explosive article linking President Donald Trump to Russian bankers. CNN has apologized to the subject of the article, disabled links to the story and admitted it does not “meet editorial standards.” RT […]

Published on Jun 26, 2017 Representative Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) has introduced legislation that would outlaw US agencies and programs from providing assistance to terrorist organizations. Gabbard said she wants to hold the government to the same standard as its citizens. Investigative journalist Gareth Porter discusses the US involvement in the affairs of terrorists with RT […]

Megyn Kelly Fails To Fact Check Sandy Hook Father’s Contradictory Claim In Alex Jones Hit Piece by ZeroPointNow, http://www.zerohedge.com Content originally published at iBankCoin.com Last Sunday’s exposé of Alex Jones on NBC’s Sunday Night With Megyn Kelly was considered by many to be a tasteless and heavily edited attempt to smear the Infowars host and vocal supporter of Donald Trump. Despite a week of heavy […]

Published on Jun 26, 2017 Most media outlets and politicians often ignore the deadly consequences of US regime change policy, including the rise of Islamic State, according to Representative Tulsi Gabbard. Did Syria attack America or threaten American interests? Clearly NO! So why is America supporting terrorists to overthrow Assad? The people behind this are […]

Worst Crash In Our Lifetime Coming – Jim Rogers by Mark O’Byrne, http://www.goldcore.com/us/ Legendary investor Jim Rogers sat down with Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget on this week’s episode of “The Bottom Line.” Rogers predicts a market crash “later this year or next …. write it down.” Rogers say the crash will rival anything he has seen in his […]

Three CNN Employees ‘Resign’ Over ‘Russia Collusion’ Fake News Retraction by Tyler Durden, http://www.zerohedge.com A few days ago we noted that CNN was forced to retract one of their bombshell ‘Russian collusion’ stories when it was apparently revealed that the whole thing was nothing more than their latest, anonymously-sourced fake news debacle. Like most CNN […]

Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation released a side-by-side summary comparison of Obamacare repeal and replace legislation. The summary clearly compares similarities and differences between Obamacare, the original U.S. House of Representatives GOP plan, the final U.S. House GOP plan, and the current U.S. Senate leadership draft plan.

By Chip Roy Today, the Congressional Budget Office released a score of the draft Senate healthcare bill showing a continuing increase in premiums over the next two years. The Texas Public Policy Foundation released the following quote from Chip Roy, Director of the Center for Tenth Amendment Action:

Lisa Durden never thought a fiery exchange on a Fox News show would have any impact on her employment as an adjunct professor at Essex County College, an open-access, two-year community college headquartered in Newark, New Jersey.

Originally posted on Watts Up With That?: Ooops, looks like those “saving the planet” Tesla snobs just got their eco-ride de-pimped Image from Tesla’s website From NyTeknik: h/t to Don Shaw (translated) Huge hopes have been tied to electric cars as the solution to automotive CO2 climate problem. But it turns out the the electric car…

Originally posted on Climate Etc.: by Judith Curry Why real nobodies are more powerful than repressed somebodies. The U.S. first tweeting President has upended our perceptions on the appropriate method for a President communicate. Millions of people are perplexed and horrified by President Trump’s tweets. Stepping back, Trump is the first President who has grasped…

Originally posted on Watts Up With That?: Guest Commentary by Kip Hansen The New York Times has set a new standard of scientific misrepresentation in this front page title to the latest climate change consensus salvo from Justin Gillis. On the front page of the online edition of the NY Times for 26 June…

Originally posted on Watts Up With That?: Guest post by David Middleton Why would anyone care what “environmentalists” have to say about potential Arctic oil revenue? I only care because their “reasoning” is both fun and easy to ridicule. Environmentalists Say Arctic Drilling Revenue Predictions ‘Way Off’ IULIA GHEORGHIU | JUNE 19, 2017 Conservation advocates…

A recent poll found Nancy Pelosi's favorability at 39 percent – about on par with Trump's REUTERS/Yuri Gripas Democrats in Congress are struggling to keep up a unified front. As the minority party, Democrats have spent the past six months standing by, mostly powerless, as President Donald Trump has made haphazard progress toward dismantling many of former President Barack Obama’s key accomplishments. Last week the party suffered another blow: a bitter defeat in a special election in Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District. That made four special elections – out of four – they have lo...more »

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow. AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin U.S. intelligence agencies – 17 of them – agree that evidence shows the Russian government hacked the Democratic National Committee and waged a campaign to influence voters in 2016. Although no evidence of collusion between U.S. citizens and Russia has been proven yet, President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s attempt to improve relations with Russia has been hobbled. The cloud hanging over the White House seems to be growing, wi...more »

AP Photo/Matt Dunham The Grenfell Tower fire in London has triggered questions about how the tragedy could have happened, whether it could happen elsewhere, and what might be learned from it to prevent future disasters. As a professor of fire protection engineering, I know that the answers are not simple, and the fixes not quick. Investigations into what actually happened at Grenfell Tower are still ongoing. While some factors have been identified, completing the picture could take years. As details emerge, though, it may not be easy to translate them to other situations. Building...more »

Japan Self-Defence Forces (JSDF) soldiers hold a drill to mobilise their Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) missile unit *Newsweek: **How To Survive Nuclear War: Japan Warns Citizens About North Korea Attack* Japan is on red-alert in the face of North Korea's repeated missile tests, with ten launches by Pyongyang during 2017 including one in which a Hwasong-12 rocket reached an altitude of more than 1,300 miles and landed in just 200 miles off the Japamese coast. Japan is now readying itself in case of nuclear attack and the government has published advice on how citizens can ...more »

*Dave Majumdar* *Security, * We asked the air force the important questions: how? The United States Air Force is planning to keep the Lockheed Martin F-22A Raptor in service though 2060. To that end, the service is funding a series of upgrades that will keep the powerful fifth-generation air superiority relevant for decades to come. Indeed, the Pentagon’s fiscal year 2018 budget request is a down payment towards that goal. “We plan to retain the F-22 until the 2060 timeframe, meaning a sustained effort is required to counter advancing threats that specifically target its capabi...more »

*Dave Majumdar* *Security, * And it will carry the F-35B. The British Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS *Queen Elizabeth *(R08) put to sea for the first time earlier today from the Scottish town of Rosyth where she was built for sea trials. The massive 65,000-tonne vessel—which features a four acre flight deck—and her yet to be completed sister ship *Prince of Wales *are the two largest warships ever built by Britain. “Today marks an historic day for the UK as HMS Queen Elizabeth, the nation's future flagship, goes to sea for the first time,” the Royal Navy stated on its Twitter...more »

*Doug Bandow* *Security, Americas* [image: Protesters attend an anti-THAAD proest in Seongju, South Korea, June 14, 2017. Picture taken on June 14, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji] The world is paying attention to the Trump team’s foreign-policy fumbles. It’s a time of trial and tribulation for America’s allies and adversaries alike. Just what is U.S. policy these days? More fundamentally, who is deciding U.S. policy? A presidential transition always creates uncertainty. Even when the Oval Office is passed between members of the same party, approaches and emphases differ. Personal con...more »

*Steven Pifer* *Security, Americas* [image: A Long Range Anti-Ship Missile launches from an Air Force B-1B Lancer during flight testing in August 2013. Wikipedia Commons / DARPA photo] Ditching the LRSO and its nuclear warhead could produce savings in the range of $15–30 billion. Over the coming fifteen years, the Pentagon plans to spend many billions of dollars modernizing the strategic nuclear triad—when the defense budget faces competing demands. On June 14, Secretary of Defense James Mattis indicated to a Senate Appropriations subcommittee that he had not yet made up his min...more »

*Scott A. Snyder* *Security, Asia* [image: People watch a TV broadcast of a news report on North Korea firing what appeared to be several land-to-ship missiles off its east coast, at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea, June 8, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji] Given the constraints and risks South Korea faces, Moon is wisely tacking toward pragmatism and alignment with the United States. Following a decade of convergence between South Korean conservatives and the Obama administration, American analysts have been bracing for a new round of alliance-shuddering tensions under Donald T...more »

*Daniel R. DePetris* *Security, Middle East* [image: Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem June 25, 2017. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun] Trump's may have to play "small ball" with the Israelis and Palestinians if he wants to make the ultimate diplomatic deal. President Donald Trump hosted Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas at the White House on May 3 for a get-to-know-you session. Trump is a newcomer to the world of Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking, but confident to a fault that his unique talent as a dealmaker an...more »

*Richard Javad Heydarian* *Security, Asia* [image: A joint group of police and military forces guard while conducting a house to house search as part of clearing operations in different sections of Marawi city, Philippines June 7, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer] Asia’s already-volatile geopolitics just got a new plot twist. Sharing an enemy has a magical way of forcing estranged allies back into each other’s embrace. In many ways, this is exactly what is happening to bilateral relations between the Philippines and the United States, as both nations grapple with the prospect of an Islamic...more »

States that claim they’re committed to Paris do nothing for the climate and ill serve their citizens Ten states, some 150 cities, and 1,100 businesses, universities and organizations insist “We are still in” – committed to the Paris climate agreement and determined to continue reducing carbon dioxide emissions and preventing climate change. In the process, WASI members claim, they will create jobs and promote innovation, trade and international competitiveness. It’s mostly hype, puffery and belief in tooth fairies. Let’s begin with the climate. When Delaware signed on to WASI, for ex...more »

X22 Report, “Even The Fed's Indicators Just Collapsed, This Is Not Good” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbebSzlGod0 *Related followup report:* X22 Report, “The Plan, The Plot & How The Deep State Is Being Out Maneuvered” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r77b_Veva3o

Remember how the first version of TrumpCare in the House wasn’t quite good enough for the far right savages in the Republican caucus? So they called in Freedom Caucus lunatic Mark Meadows to work with spineless south Jersey multimillionaire Tom MacArthur and they came up with a far worse and more deadly version that the radical right could-- and did-- get behind. That same process is playing out in the Senate now. You have the off-the-cliff extremists like Ted Cruz, Ron Johnson and Mike Lee threatening to tank the bill if it doesn’t kill more people than the bill already worse than...more »

Breaking News: The Senate health bill got its official score. 22 million would lose insurance by 2026. https://t.co/g8gkiSLXPp — The New York Times (@nytimes) June 26, 2017 Courtesy of the New York Times: *The Senate bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act would increase the number of people without health insurance by 22 million by 2026, a figure that is only slightly lower than the 23 million more uninsured that the House version would create, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Monday. * *Next year, 15 million more people would be uninsured compared with current l...more »

Invitation! U.S.-based CFACT, along with its Australian partners, is hosting a showing of its new groundbreaking documentary, Climate Hustle, and you're invited! Following each event, join film director CFACT Executive Director, Craig Rucker and film host and publisher of ClimateDepot.com Marc Morano, for a question and answer session. Get the behind the scenes scoop on both the film and the US's decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord. We are pleased to be working with the following organizations: Australian Institute for Progress Galileo Movement Australian Envir...more »

Tune in Wednesday June 28th 6:00 PM PST for an enlightened BlogTalk radio broadcast featuring the illustrious Norman Farrell .....BC's foremost critic of BC Hydro...Norm has revealed so many BC Hydro inconsistencies...illusionary profits, forecast failures going out over a decade, debt accumulation, and now of course...the impending Site C boondoggle...no economic case, dire warnings from a myriad of respected nonpartisan sources...IPPs power buying disaster... Norm Farrell...https://in-sights.ca/ Along with CanadianGlen.. Canadian Glen pulls no punches, he'll be weighing in ...more »

“Top to bottom, this colorful and broad telescopic mosaic links Markarian's Chain of galaxies across the core of the Virgo Cluster to dusty spiral galaxy Messier 64. Galaxies are scattered through the field of view that spans some 20 full moons across a gorgeous night sky. The cosmic frame is also filled with foreground stars from constellations Virgo and the well-groomed Coma Berenices, and faint, dusty nebulae drifting above the plane of the Milky Way. *Click image for larger size.* Look carefully for Markarian's eyes. The famous pair of interacting galaxies is near the top, not f...more »

*"Follow Your Destiny"* "Follow your destiny, Water your plants, Love your roses. The rest is shadow Of unknown trees. Reality is always More or less Than what we want. Only we are always Equal to ourselves. It’s good to live alone, And noble and great Always to live simply. Leave pain on the altar As an offering to the gods. See life from a distance. Never question it. There’s nothing it can Tell you. The answer Lies beyond the Gods. But quietly imitate Olympus in your heart. The gods are gods Because they don’t think About what they are." - Fernando Pessoa

"Thucydides in the Underworld" by J. R. Nyquist "Master, what gnaws at them so hideously their lamentation stuns the very air?" "They have no hope of death," he answered me..." - Dante Alighieri, "The Inferno" "The shade of Thucydides, formerly an Athenian general and historian, languished in Hades for 24 centuries; and having intercourse with other spirits, was perturbed by an influx into the underworld of self-described historians professing to admire his History of the Peloponnesian War. They burdened him with their writings, priding themselves on the imitation of his method, t...more »

"The life of Man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long. One by one, as they march, our comrades vanish from our sight, seized by the silent orders of omnipotent Death. Very brief is the time in which we can help them, in which their happiness or misery is decided. Be it ours to shed sunshine on their path, to lighten their sorrows by the balm of sympathy, to give them the pure joy of a never-tiring affection, to strengthen failing courage, to instill f...more »

*“We Are All Like Elephants”* by Marc Chernoff "In many ways, our past experiences have conditioned us to believe that we are less capable than we are. All too often we let the rejections of our past dictate every move we make. We literally do not know ourselves to be any better than what some opinionated person or narrow circumstance once told us was true. Of course, an old rejection doesn’t mean we aren’t good enough; it just means some person or circumstance from our past failed to align with what we had to offer at the time. But somehow we don’t see it that way - we hit a menta...more »

"If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders - what would you tell him to do?" "I... don't know. What could he do? What would you tell him?" "To shrug." - Ayn Rand, “Atlas Shrugged”

Few other words in the English language conjure up such strong value judgments and emotions as the word pedophilia. The word originates from the Greek “paidos” meaning “child” and “philia” signifying “loving.” Because so many common misconceptionsexist over what pedophilia is, and since it’s the central controversial topic of this book, the first order of business needs to define what pedophilia actually is, and attempt to shed light on its most frequent misperceptions. Confusion abounds over whether pedophilia constitutes a mental disorder, a psychological condition or malady, o...more »

TRENTON, N.J. — Colleges need to gather data about sexual violence at their schools, set up clear reporting procedures and establish investigation models if they are to address high rates of on-campus assaults, a New Jersey task force said in a Monday report. Republican Gov. Chris Christie and the state Legislature formed the Task Force […]

WILMINGTON, Del. — The University of Delaware won’t rehire a professor who said a college student who died after being held by North Korea “got exactly what he deserved.” In a statement Sunday, the university said that the adjunct faculty member, Katherine Dettwyler, will not be rehired. She had last taught a course in the […]

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa — A diverse group of high school students have spent a week living on a college campus in Iowa to learn what it’s like to be an educator. Fifteen students participated in the week-long Minority Educators for Today and Tomorrow academy hosted by the University of Northern Iowa, the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier […]

AUSTIN, Texas — The NCAA is conducting an “ongoing, pending investigation” into Baylor University in the wake of a sexual assault scandal that led to the firing of football coach Art Briles and the departure of the school president, the school’s lawyers confirmed in a federal court filing. Baylor officials acknowledged the investigation while asking […]

BOSTON — Danielle Ramos’ student-debt nightmare was supposed to be over. Like thousands of others who studied at failed for-profit colleges, she was promised by the U.S. Education Department under President Barack Obama that her federal loans would be forgiven by now. But as the weeks tick by with no reprieve, the 30-year-old college student […]

CHICAGO — Yingying Zhang, the daughter of a working-class factory driver from China, took the same career path as many other young Chinese academics before her: She travelled to a university in the U.S. with dreams of one day landing a professorship and being able to help her parents financially. But just weeks after arriving […]

DURHAM, N.C. — Johnson O. Akinleye has been elected the new chancellor at N.C. Central University, where he has served as interim chancellor since January. Akinleye was elected to the position during a special meeting of the UNC Board of Governors on Monday. He was named acting chancellor in August 2016 when then-chancellor Debra Saunders-White […]

Ufological Obstacles *By Alfred Lehmberg* *Summary: **Is Ufology impeded? It doesn't seem to go anywhere. I mean... it's been stuck in neutral for the last fifty years for all the valiant attempts to steer it into the mainstream. What keeps ufology in a giggle-factor limbo? What banishes it to the realm of tabloid magazines?* ------------------------------ UFOLOGICAL OBSTACLES... Is Ufology impeded? It doesn't seem to go anywhere. I mean... it's been stuck in neutral for the last fifty years for every valiant attempt to steer it into the mainstream. Stanton Friedman, Richard Dolan,...more »

Go to *New York* magazine's front page right now and you see this headline: *CBO Score of Senate Health Bill Is Grim* But click on the link and Ed Kilgore tells you precisely how Mitch McConnell might save the bill: [The bill] nearly triples the deficit reduction estimates for the House bill (from $119 billion to $321 billion), mostly because of a combination of a delay in the repeal of certain Obamacare taxes and reconfigured health-insurance purchasing subsidies.... As a practical matter the higher deficit-reduction number is pleasing to conservatives, but also gives McConnell a ...more »

[image: republican-healthcare-plan-fails-the-jimmy-kimmel-test] Every decent human being supports a healthcare system that ensures children have access to medical care. However, this does not mean every decent person should support government-run healthcare. In fact decent people should oppose all forms of nationalized medicine.

*Denis Dragovic & Richard Iron, National Interest:* *It's Time to Break Up Syria* *Some believe that the destruction of ISIS is the only thing standing between peace and eternal crisis. It isn’t.* THE ELIMINATION of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria has become an unhealthy obsession for Western nations, most of which operate under the assumption that the destruction of ISIS is the only thing standing between peace and eternal crisis. It isn’t. Focusing on ISIS’s defeat is a nonstrategy that has been seen before, one familiar to anyone involved in the invasion and rebuilding of Ir...more »

[image: undefined] Legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh is challenging the Trump administration’s version of events surrounding the April 4 “chemical weapons attack” on the northern Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun – though Hersh had to find a publisher in Germany to get his information out. In the Sunday edition of Die Welt, Hersh reports that his national security sources offered a distinctly different account, revealing President Trump rashly deciding to launch 59 Tomahawk missiles against a Syrian airbase on April 6 despite the absence of intelligence supporting his concl...more »

[image: undefined] “We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.” ― William O. Douglas, Supreme Court Justice (1966) The government has become an expert in finding ways to sidestep what it considers “inconvenient laws” aimed at ensuring accountability and thereby bringing about government transparency and protecting citizen privacy. Indeed, it has mastered the art of stealth maneuvers and end-runs around the Constitution. It knows all too well how to hide its nefarious, covert, clande...more »

"Then you will see the rise of the men of the double standard - the men who live by force, yet count on those who live by trade to create the value of their looted money - the men who are the hitchhikers of virtue. In a moral society, these are the criminals, and the statutes are written to protect you against them. But when a society establishes criminals-by-right and looters-by-law - men who use force to seize the wealth of disarmed victims- then money becomes its creators' avenger. Such looters believe it safe to rob defenseless men, once they've passed a law to disarm them. But ...more »

Photos copyright Robin Silver Photography Published with permission at Censored News Thank you Havasupai hosted a three day gathering on Red Butte, June 23--25, to halt uranium mining and transport in their homeland, known as the Grand Canyon. Read more .http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2017/06/havasupai-guardians-gather-to-protect.html?m=1

By Megan Ingram The Texas Public Policy Foundation today released a paper on the Endangered Species Act by Megan Ingram, policy analyst with the Armstrong Center for Energy & the Environment at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. The paper, “The Endangered Species Act in Texas: A Survey and History”, provides an overview of the Endangered Species Act as a policy tool, a survey of key species in Texas, and guidance reform.

*Reuters:** In victory for Trump, U.S. Supreme Court revives his travel ban* The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed a victory to President Donald Trump by reviving parts of his travel ban on people from six Muslim-majority countries and refugees and agreeing to decide its legality later this year in a major test of presidential powers. The justices narrowed the scope of lower court rulings that had completely blocked his March 6 executive order that Trump had said was needed to prevent terrorism in the United States, allowing his temporary ban to go into effect for people with no...more »

*Jacob Heilbrunn* *Security, * [image: DATE IMPORTED:May 30, 2017People watch as the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) element of the U.S. ballistic missile defense system launches during a flight test from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, U.S., May 30, 2017.] Jacob Heilbrunn interviews Rebeccah L. Heinrichs on the state of U.S. missile defense. On March 23, 1983, Ronald Reagan addressed the nation and called for a Strategic Defense Initiative that would allow the American military to render the nuclear threat “impotent and obsolete.” Reagan, who had campaigned against ...more »

Courtesy of TPM: *President Donald Trump is eager to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin with full diplomatic bells and whistles when the two are in Germany for a multinational summit next month. But the idea is exposing deep divisions within the administration on the best way to approach Moscow in the midst of an ongoing investigation into Russian meddling in the U.S. elections. * *Many administration officials believe the U.S. needs to maintain its distance from Russia at such a sensitive time — and interact only with great caution. * *But Trump and some others within his adm...more »

In all the years I've been following, commenting on, criticising, and campaigning against the Conservative Party and the interests they represent there was never a time or an occasion, *including* the concession of the EU referendum, that sums up their decadence and short-sightedness quite like the deal finalised with the Democratic Unionists today. Where do you begin, really? In a bizarre case of projection and blow back, every insult, threat and warning spat at the Labour Party has fantastically rebounded. "There is no magic money tree" droned a succession of...more »

By Paul Homewood h/t Green Sand The Telegraph has finally woken up to a problem I was warning about four years ago! The UK Government risks sleepwalking into a £23bn tax black hole by failing to face up to the fiscal impact of tackling road transport emissions. The new parliament plans to […]

*Paul Davis* - We must understand and listen to the multi-generational pain and trauma created by the institution of slavery. The post Black Oppression and White Guilt – Do You Feel It? appeared first on Waking Times.

*Phillip Schneider* - Monsanto got their wish in a new film promoting the scientific virtues of genetically modified foods. The post Neil DeGrasse Tyson Hosts Pro-GMO Corporate Propaganda Film ‘Food Evolution’ appeared first on Waking Times.

[image: don-t-renegotiate-nafta-get-us-out] While running for the oval office, President Trump noted to crowds how destructive NAFTA was to individuals, businesses, and states. Now he says he may keep NAFTA.

[image: supreme-court-allows-most-of-trump-travel-ban-to-proceed-will-hear-case-in-fall] The U.S. Supreme Court on June 26 granted most of the Trump administration’s emergency request to put the president’s March 6 travel ban executive order into place.

*Reuters*: *Mosul battle to end in days as troops advance in Old City: Iraqi general* The battle to take full control of Mosul from Islamic State will be over in a few days and an attempted fight-back by the militants failed, an Iraqi general told Reuters on Monday. "Only a small part remains in the city, specifically the Old City," said Lieutenant General Abdul Ghani al-Assadi, commander of the Counter Terrorism Service (CTS) elite units in Mosul. "From a military perspective, Daesh (Islamic State) is finished," Assadi said. "It lost its fighting spirit and its balance, we are m...more »

*"What It Means To Be American"* by WashingtonsBlog "Many blowhards attack those who criticize powerful people in America. They treat any questioning of “authority” as being “anti-American” or “anti-government”. Indeed, according to Department of Defense training manuals, protest is “low-level terrorism”. And see this, this and this. Similarly, an FBI memo labels peace protesters as “terrorists”. But – as shown by the following quotes – those are anti-American thoughts. Indeed, as Americans, we are very pro-America. But we’re anti-CORRUPTION, anti-FASCISM and anti-PILLAGING AND PL...more »

*She's back-- and up to no good again!* It’s 10 years later and right-wing Democrat Ellen Tauscher-- once the head of the New Dems, a vice chair of the DLC, and a proud Blue Dog-- is rearing her head in Democratic politics again. She’s the chair of the California 7 Project (AKA- Fight Back California), which purports to being trying to defeat 7 California Republicans in 2018: Jeff Denham and David Valadao in the Central Valley, Steve Knight in the L.A./Ventura 25the district and the 4 vulnerable GOPers in Orange County, Ed Royce, Dana Rohrabacher, Darrell Issa and Mimi Walters. Typi...more »

A photo from the Russian Defense Ministry website showing Russian bombers dropping their payloads on targets in Syria. Russian Defense Ministry Press Service *Emile Simpson, Business Insider/Foreign Policy*: *How the US and Russia can avoid getting sucked into a war* In the last month, for the first time since the civil war in Syria began in 2011, the United States has directly attacked Syrian government forces or proxies — not just once, but at least four times. The urgent question now is less about Syria than Russia. In response to the latest of these incidents, in which a US fi...more »

Fusion GPS was on the payroll of an unidentified ally of Hillary Clinton when it was hired to help fabricate fake news about President Trump. The post BOMBSHELL: Democratic ally of Hillary Clinton hired retired British spy to dig up dirt on Trump appeared first on The Duran.

Indigenous-led resistance against new fishing regulations imposed by Finnish and Norwegian governments By Ellos Deatnu, Censored News Last week, a group called Ellos Deatnu (Long Live Deatnu) declared a moratorium over part of the Deatnu (Tana/Teno) River, in response to new fishing regulations imposed by the Finnish and Norwegian governments that severely limit

*James Bovard, USA Today*: *Donald Trump is reckless on Syria. It's his most dangerous foreign policy folly.* *Trump said Obama's 'horrendous leadership' on Syria could start World War III. He's made things even worse.* Last year on the campaign trail, crowds roared when Donald Trump denounced his opponent as "trigger-happy" Hillary. But President Trump is rapidly incarnating the vice he condemned. Nowhere is this more evident than in Syria, where Trump’s recklessness risks dragging America into a major war. U.S. policy toward Syria has been a tangle of absurdities since 2012. Pr...more »

*"Martial Law by Executive Order"* by Jim Garrison "The National Defense Resources Preparedness Executive Order of March 16, 2012 did to the country as a whole what the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act did to the Constitution in particular- completely eviscerates any due process or judicial oversight for any action by the Government deemed in the interest of "national security." Like the NDAA, the Executive Order puts the government completely above the law, which, in a democracy, is never supposed to happen. *The United States is essentially now under martial law without th...more »

The documentary film Food Evolution provides a fresh, scientific look at the technology of crop genetic engineering and some situations it has, or could, help solve problems for farmers. It shows the ugly politics and distortions that have maligned a useful technology that has served farmers well for twenty years, worldwide. read more

Originally posted on Tallbloke's Talkshop: The dash for renewables in South Australia has gone so badly wrong that crisis measures are now called for, as PEI reports. A large-scale temporary power solution is being considered, as South Australia struggles to ensure its energy security. A 250 MW ship-based power station is under consideration as…

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (10:30 P.M.) – Government advances in eastern Syria are unfolding at an unpredicented pace at the moment with the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) plunging through ISIS’ defensive line on the provincial border between Homs and Deir Ezzor. Following fresh gains earlier in the day, the SAA’s 5th Legion – supported by Hezbollah (Lebanese […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (9:30 P.M.) – Collateral damage is mounting in eastern Afghanistan after American warplanes have reduced much of Achin city, an ISIS stronghold in Nangarhar province, to rubbles. According to pictures released by Amaq Agency, at least four babies were killed due to US aerial sorties over the border region on Monday. Many more […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (9:00 P.M.) – ISIS insurgents stationed in Raqqa city are now left to fend for themselves after the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) secured the entire southern bank of the Euphrates River city today. Pushing through the southern countryside, the largely Kurdish SDF captured the Fakhayiah and Al-Gouta villages after lengthy clashes came to […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

BEIRUT, LEBANON (7:50 P.M.) – The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have obstructed water to over 1 million residents of Aleppo City, today, a Syrian government source reported. The Syrian Democratic Forces reportedly blocked the water from the Euphrates Dam that feeds into the Khafsa Pumps, halting the supply to people of Aleppo City. While […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

BEIRUT, LEBANON (7:10 P.M.) – Twelve members of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s security team accused of alleged involvement in assault on protesters in Washington D.C. last month won’t be allowed to enter the German territory “in the foreseeable future” including for the upcoming G20 summit in Hamburg. The announcement was made by German Foreign […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

This pawesome little pup is being hailed as a “miracle dog” after he woke up his owner from a medically induced coma. While waiting for him to come out of a coma, Andy’s wife, Estelle, received special permission to bring Teddy into the hospital. Pet visits usually take place outside the hospital, but hospital staff made an exception for Teddy. Inside Edition reported that Andy woke up from his coma as soon as Teddy entered the hospital room and started barking. “Ted is such a remarkable little dog in many ways,” Andy said. “He’s clever, loving, loyal, funny and a right little ch...more »

*'Dr. Kevin Barrett a former CIA agent.'* *1. Dr Kevin Barrett* is senior editor at *Veterans Today*. He "co-hosts AMPAC Radio Community Talk-Show [6] with MD "Rabbi" Alam.[7] " *2.* Barrett's job has been to promote non-secular Moslem regimes, such as Turkey. *Kevin Barrett supported the CIA-Mossad Arab Spring.* *Barrett wrote:* "To the extent the Zio-American mouthpieces are talking about the fall of the ultra-secularist Tunisian regime - until yesterday the last remaining overtly anti-Islamic regime in the Muslim world now that Turkey is being reclaimed by its people - they ar...more »

Courtesy of The Hill: *One of the primary arguments from Republicans for repealing ObamaCare is that the healthcare law is “collapsing.” But experts warn that the GOP’s legislation might destabilize insurance markets even more over time. * *The Senate’s ObamaCare repeal-and-replace bill, released Thursday, would abolish ObamaCare’s mandate for people to have insurance, but it would still bar insurers from denying people coverage for pre-existing conditions. * *Experts warn that arrangement would allow people to wait until they get sick to buy insurance coverage, likely driving up ...more »

What happened to the USS Fitzgerald? This video puts forward some theories, I don't necessarily agree with them but there's something very odd about the incident involving the USS Fitzgerald. https://youtu.be/eANUtcpxL04

*"A Stock Market Crash Scenario"* by Charles Hugh Smith "After 8+ years of phenomenal gains, it's pretty obvious the global stock market rally is overdue for a credit-cycle downturn, and many research services of Wall Street heavyweights are sounding the alarm about the auto industry's slump, the slowing of new credit and other fundamental indicators that a recession is becoming more likely. Few have taken the risk of projecting a date for the crash, this gent being a gutsy outlier: 'Hedge Fund CIO Sets The Day When The Next Crash Begins'. Next February is a good guess, as recessio...more »

*“The Technicolor Swan”* by James Howard Kunstler “When I think of the Democratic Party these days, the image instantly comes to mind of little Linda Blair playing the demon-possessed child in the classic horror movie, 'The Exorcist' (1973), most particularly the scene in which she spews a stream of pea soup-like projectile vomit into the face of kindly old Max von Sydow, as Father Merrin, the priest come to rescue her. The pea soup represents the sort of ideology that the Democratic Party has spewed out in recent years - a toxic mush of racial identity politics, contempt for men, ...more »

*Al Jazeera:* *Fighting intensifies in Syrian Golan Heights* *At least 12 people reportedly killed as Assad's forces and opposition fighters clash in Quneitra amid Israeli strikes.* Fighting between government forces and opposition fighters has intensified in the Quneitra province in Syria's south, situated in the roughly 30 percent of the Golan Heights under Syrian control. More than a dozen people were killed, including both pro-government forces and opposition fighters, in the latest uptick in fighting in the countryside of al-Baath city and near the town of Khan Arnab, the Syr...more »

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/highrises-evacuated-in-london-amid-safety-concerns-about-cladding-1.4176046 Our news media haven't, as a rule, paid much attention to what caused the terrible high-rise fire in London, England. The cause was the much admired ability of capitalism to do things on the cheap - especially when dealing with the poor. _______________________________________________________________________ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/trudeau-government-proposes-opening-st-lawrence-marine-protected-area-to-oil-exploration/article35455157/ Isn't Justin wonderful? T...more »

*Sandra Erwin* *Security, * Despite the heightened publicity generated by the proposed legislation, the stark reality is that a 355-ship Navy is largely unaffordable and a long shot, at best, analysts said. A coalition of shipbuilding champions on Capitol Hill hope to soon celebrate passage of a bipartisan bill that would cement into law a requirement for the U.S. Navy to have a fleet of 355 combat ships. How that effort would be funded, or when, is anyone’s guess. The budget proposed by President Trump falls way short of what it would cost to ramp up production beyond what the...more »

*Kevin Knodell* *Security, * How a bunch of German soldiers found themselves in a war in Asia in the 1930s. *The strange tale of the Germans in China’s wars demonstrates how quickly loyalty and national interest can shift—and alliances with them. It also reveals that personal ties formed in the crucible of combat can transcend these shifts and last a lifetime.* *Unfortunately for men like Falkenhausen, the saga also shows how steep the price of integrity can be.* Most people who stayed awake for at least half of their high school history class knows that the Axis Powers in Worl...more »

Seymour Hersh's shocking new investigative report shows that US intelligence knew there was no Assad chemical attack in April, but that President Trump was so influenced by media images (which may have been faked) that he fired 59 Tomahawk missiles into Syria anyway. Meanwhile, rank and file Democrat Members of Congress are growing frustrated over their leadership's continuing obsession with Russia as public opinion shifts on the issue. Republican Members are pushing for more Russia sanctions. Political shifts, on today's Liberty Report:

[image: federal-judge-blocks-deportation-of-iraqi-christians] A federal judge in Michigan has temporarily blocked the deportation of more than 100 Iraqi Christians living in Detroit, who fear for their lives if they are forced to return to their native land.

[image: blockbuster-study-seattle-s-minimum-wage-increases-cost-low-wage-workers-125-a-month] There are only two conclusions that might be drawn by a study that acknowledges the predicted economic pain inflicted on the poor by Seattle's mandated minimum-wage increase: Either the members of the Seattle City Council are abysmally economically ignorant, or they intended the results of their actions.

I'll grant that this wasn't the most important news coming from the Supreme Court today.... The Supreme Court declined to review a case about the right to carry firearms outside the home, but two justices publicly dissented from their colleagues' decision not to take up the issue. The high court said Monday it would not hear a National Rifle Association-supported legal challenge by California resident Edward Peruta, who challenged a state law limiting gun-carrying permits to those showing "good cause" and a San Diego County policy that says concern about personal safety is not suff...more »

*MONDAY, JUNE 26, 2017Who's delusional now:* In our view, Margaret Sullivan's column in this morning's Washington Post is little short of remarkable. That said, it's so remarkable that it's depressing to contemplate. Let's leave it for tomorrow, even as we lump it in with this remarkable column at the new and improved Salon. We'd have to say that Sullivan's piece is tragically, cataclysmically tribal. We had a somewhat similar reaction to this new post by Josh Marshall. Marshall discusses the latest attack/claims by Donald J. Trump. He then quotes someone explaining, in a fully...more »

*DW*: *Philippines resume 'offensive operations' against militants* Philippine authorities have vowed to end the Islamist uprising in Marawi City "at the soonest time possible." Human rights groups have warned that martial law could pave the way for serious abuses by the armed forces. Philippine armed forces on Monday relaunched a military intervention against so-called "Islamic State" (IS)-allied militants in the southern city of Marawi following a brief "humanitarian pause" to mark the Islamic holiday Eid al-Fitr. "Our offensive operations have resumed and will continue so we ca...more »

A big thank you to Larissa appeals prosecutor Konstantinos Gogos for handing over yet more evidence of corruption straight into my hand this morning. Gogos was ever so anxious to reassure me that my case concerning the vast system of corruption in Larisa court was being sent to an external prosecutor as I have repeatedly […]

*A*nonymous now has more credibility than all four big US cable news channels and the big newspapers combined. This is due to the fact that while they and their sources are …anonymous.. they manage to find verifiable information. This claim is different. IF this is true there are only TWO ways NASA could have found proof of extraterrestrial life. SETI has intercepted a convincingly strong source of intelligently engineered radio from a known habitable zone Kepler planet. read more

*CawRANT Events #49* *Good Morning Everybody!* It's a stunningly gorgeous morning on the West Coast. Can't wait to get out there walking my dogs. Yesterday, the temperature broke all records for this region. I won't lie...it was uncomfortable. Especially for my dogs and my canaries who were stuck in the sun porch. My partner and I went out for a "shake down" cruise on the nearby Burrard Inlet our old sailboat. It was cooler on the water, but I still got a slight sunburn (I don't believe in sunscreen). Today promises to be a bit cooler. Regardless of the summer weather and va...more »

Draining the swamp is one thing, difficult enough to do and then contend with the alligators nesting there. Caleb Rossiter is even more concerned about the infiltration of climate change activists into every branch of federal bureaucracy. His POV is explained in a Washington Examiner article Trump’s agenda faces climate deep state by John Siciliano […]

People either fall into the love or hate category when talking about spiders. I’m one of the LOVE folks. But I don’t just love them because I read Charlotte’s Web when I was a kid. I love spiders because they are amazing. In fact, if it weren’t for them, we’d be living under an all

By Dr. Mercola Millions of tons of titanium dioxide are produced globally each year. It adds whiteness and brightness to products and also helps them resist discoloration. Titanium dioxide also reflects ultraviolet (UV) light, which is why it’s often used as an ingredient in sunscreens. Most titanium dioxide (close to 70 percent) is used as

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